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Product Scoping Decisions
If you have been around Product Development or Systems Engineering long enough, you could write some horror stories describing how feature bloat killed a great product. Regardless of your product development methodology (waterfall, lean startup, agile, etc.), every product has … Continue reading
THINK-plan-DO-check
The human bias towards ACTION is very strong. But what distinguishes us from the beasts is our ability to THINK, i.e. envision a range of possible futures, evaluate competing alternatives and commit to a specific vision of the future before … Continue reading
Lean and Agile Thinking
It’s hard to escape the influence that the Lean and Agile movements have had on innovation-driven enterprises. They have grown from their manufacturing and software roots to converge in the new product development, innovation and start-up space. And done mostly … Continue reading
Ultimately Lean Innovation
Think for a second about what the ultimately lean innovation process might look like: Attack the right problem: Use a proven criteria pattern to evaluate your portfolio of problems to solve and select the problems that will yield the greatest … Continue reading
Managing decision interactions
A Decision Breakdown Structure (DBS) for any complex strategy, system or project is a way to decompose the situation into well-framed, loosely-coupled, bite-sized and manageable “thought packages“. Each decision “node” within this structure is a well-framed “fundamental question or issue that demands … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Concepts, Decision Driven Innovation, Decision Driven Product Development, Decision Driven Strategy
Tagged constraints, criteria, critical path, cross-constraints, decision dependencies, decision interactions, decision network, decision tree, derived requirements, lean processes, lean thinking, NPV, pareto's law, problem domain, project management, roadmaps, solution space, strategy, systems engineering, thinking breakdown structure, traceability, trade space
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Drain the swamp
People are really, really busy these days. The best and brightest workers are the busiest; the reward for great work is more work. Everyone seems so busy fighting operational fires that they have almost no time to invest in strategic decisions … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Driven Innovation, Decision Driven Product Development, Decision Driven Strategy, Decision Patterns
Tagged busy, capability growth, decision baseline, decision management, distributed decision-making, empowerment, lean thinking, mentoring, operational fire-fighting, strategic decisions, strategic excellence, time management
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